Word: tacitly
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After thrice protesting that his lips are sealed, Mr. Baldwin suddenly changes his mind and rushes into the House of Commons, tripping over the extended feet of Mr. Eden, to unseal his lips in a tacit admission that the King does not demand that Mrs. Simpson be his Queen but only insists upon contracting a morganatic marriage and giving her one of his lesser titles such as Countess of Chester. "The only possible way," Mr. Baldwin tells the House of Commons, "would be by legislation dealing with a particular case. His Majesty's Government are NOT prepared to introduce...
...Cabot Lodge is rated far from reactionary and his work as chairman of the House Committee on Labor & Industries has won him Labor's tacit approval. Unless the Democratic machine can keep the name of Senator Coolidge's son-in-law Robert Greenwood off the November ballot as an independent, the Governor will be at a distinct disadvantage. Many an observer of the Massachusetts contest thought that Nominee Curley was more likely to beat himself than Cabot Lodge...
Last week Hitler's newspaper, the Völkisclier Beobachter, gave a tacit answer to the pastors' letter. With easy logic, it asserted that since Der Führer is always right and since Der Führer is the party and the party is Der Führer, therefore, what any Nazi functionary does in Der Führer's name is also always right unless reversed by the Nazi Party or Der Führer...
Under the heading, "Wrong Righted," TIME, July 6, your conclusion that the settlement out of court of the $9,000,000 damage suits for cancelation of airmail contracts was a tacit admission on the part of the Government ''that its 1934 action had been wrongful is wholly unjustified and appears to be an intentional distortion of the relations between the parties involved...
...dramatizes the romantic affair between the famed leader of the Irish Party and the beautiful Katherine O'Shea. Irresistibly attracted at first sight the lovers are impelled to consummate their feelings in the only manner possible under the rigid British divorce laws. They take up common residence with the tacit consent of Kate's husband, the fatuous dandy, Captain William O'Shea. Aspiring to political position which he can gain only through Parnell's favor, O'Shea makes himself so universally disliked that a breach arises in the Irish Party on the eve of their triumph, at the moment when...